Questions tagged [teaching]
This tag is related to the role and duties of a teacher, an academic instructor, tutor or a teaching assistant.
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How would a small liberal arts college view a PhD from Germany or the UK? Factors other than teaching ops?
Main concern: I am looking at PhD programs in Germany and the UK (vs US programs). Ideally, I would like to end up at a small liberal arts college (I got my BA from one). So I know I want a program ...
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How to deal with unruly, unengaged students who complain about me?
I got a job 6 months ago as a university lecturer. I was assigned two subjects with the same students. Due to COVID-19, classes are online and lectures are recorded.
From the beginning, the majority ...
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Is it reasonable for a professor to ask students to stay 30-45 minutes past scheduled class time every week?
I'm currently in a class in my major that meets for 50 minutes 3 times a week. Meanwhile, I'm a member of a campus club, unrelated to my major, which meets right after this class one day.
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Techniques for good board handwriting
I'm a math TA and I find that my most consistent comment for improvement involved my board handwriting. Anybody have some tips or techniques I can use to make things a little neater on the board?
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As an international instructor, should I openly talk about my accent?
I'm an international, teaching at an American university, and I have an accent, which can be strong at times. I'm working hard at it, have always been, but still, the accent is there.
This has never ...
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What are the benefits of an oral exam?
A recent question about reducing stress in oral examinations asserted that
Oral exams can have various pedagogical benefits in certain circumstances
Based on the reputation of the poster I'm ...
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What to do if assignment is against student's religion?
What is the proper course of action if while teaching an undergraduate or even secondary school course an assignment violates the religious beliefs of a student?
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Effective way to deal with misuse of mobile devices in class
I'm at a North American, state-run university (not an elite institution), which is relatively modern in terms of supporting mobile devices. The school is proud of its WiFi coverage in every classroom, ...
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How do I 'read the room' and adjust my pace while lecturing?
I am a PhD student. I've never taught a lecture-style course before. I just filled in for my advisor at the last minute, giving a lecture in an undergrad course.
I taught from the lecture slides that ...
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Good slide design for teaching?
When I am preparing slides for a course (as I have been today, weekend be damned), aside from questions of pacing and exposition, I often find myself asking various questions about the layout of ...
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Is 100 hours per year of teaching a heavy load for a lecturer?
I have recently been appointed as a lecturer in a scientific department. This is a permanent position. The responsibilities of the position include: teaching, conducting high level research, ...
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How can we promote better writing skills in academic education?
This question may be too wide or in some perspective perceived as unclear but covers a key issue (for me) in academia, namely, academic writing.
Students start their academic career with varying ...
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Do teaching evaluations lead to lower standards in class?
In the somehow recent past, teaching evaluations have become obligatory in many universities/departments in Germany. I've also heard that sometimes these evaluations are used in formal ways to decide ...
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What makes a didactically effective lecture? [closed]
I have made the experience that even the most excellent academics are often didactically mediocre lecturers. I also watched some of last years Nobel lectures and realised many laureates are actually ...
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How to calibrate the time constraint of an exam for a new course?
I am preparing an exam for a course I'm running. It's an engineering course; the exam problems require students to apply conceptual knowledge and quantitative skills taught in lectures and labs.
It's ...
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